Re: photos (fwd)

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: photos (fwd)
From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 06:29:00 -0800
Tesla List wrote:
> 
> photos
> 
> >From chip-at-poodle.pupman-dot-comTue Nov 12 22:43:05 1996
> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 21:38:00 -0700 (MST)
> From: Chip Atkinson <chip-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: photos (fwd)
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I had a little trouble with yesterday's image mailing, but hope to have it
> correct this time.
> 
> The coil discharging is Dave Burman's 6" beauty.  It is demonstrating the
> inadequate size of my garage.  We are using my HV power and cap, his
> coil.
> 
> The apparatus is my rotary spark gap that I finished a month or so ago.
> It has 1"x14"x14" plexiglass side plates, and 1/2" polycarbonate end
> plates.  The electrodes are 1/8" Tungsten in massive aluminum holders.
> The disk is 1/2" G-10, trued up on all three edges on the lathe, 12
> electrodes made of 1/4-20 brass acorn nuts.
> 
> Chip
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Chip,

NICE pictures - looks like Dave's coil was really cookin'! Also, nice
job on the rotary! Any thoughts about doing any forced air cooling or
are you using compressed air at all? Also, it looked like you were
trying out a couple of different motor sizes. Was the larger induction
motor modified to make it synchronous like Brent's or were you running
at a high enough break rate so that you didn't get "beating"? 

Thanks for sharing these with us! Can I come over and play??

Safe coilin' to ya!!

-- Bert --